Netflix has unleashed a blistering indictment of the medical device industry, the FDA and doctors who accept money from medtech in its new documentary, ‘The Bleeding Edge,’ released today. The film depicts people who have suffered injuries and/or illnesses following placement of Bayer’s Essure sterilization device, Johnson & Johnson’s vaginal mesh, various manufacturers’ metal artificial […]

Editors of some of the most prominent medical journals – including the New England Journal of Medicine, the Journal of the American Medical Assn., the Annals of Interal Medicine and the British Medical Journal – are proposing to require researchers to share the data behind their published studies. “[T]here is an ethical obligation to responsibly share data […]

The utilization rate for hip and knee replacements jumped in Massachusetts in the wake of its pioneering universal healthcare plan, enacted under former Gov. Mitt Romney in 2006, according to a recent study published in the British Medical Journal.

MASSDEVICE ON CALL — U.S. healthcare spending has slowed in recent years thanks to a sluggish economy, but that’s scheduled to change once more provisions of President Barack Obama’s Affordable Care Act take effect in 2014, should the bill survive the Supreme Court.

Federal economists projected a steep incline in healthcare spending should the ACA programs be affirmed, but would otherwise remain historically low otherwise.